Chapter 6: Dao repository
During the last part of the war, after the Devil Emperor awoke, it seemed as if the alliance may lose. At that time the oldest of the titled gods, the God of Death came up with a proposition. He wanted all the gods and titled gods to store their inheritances in a dao repository so that future generations could carry on their inheritance even if they fail.
Even though many gods were against it, in the end almost all the gods did do so. Even Long Tian placed his own inheritance there.
The gods did not want their inheritances to be lost, and at the same time easily destroyed. Thus the God of Death hid the dao repository in the heavenly dao itself. This meant that the invaders nor anybody else could not find it. The God of Death was the strongest as well as the most knowledgeable of all the gods. No one else even knew how he created the dao repository. Being hidden within the folds of the dao, it was impossible to find it without having a level of insight into the dao similar to that of the God of Death. Being hidden in the dao also meant that it was possible to access it from anywhere in the universe and anyone could do so. And the way to enter the dao repository was a breakthrough in realm. When someone had a breakthrough in their realm, their dao mark would be updated, and when that happened, the heavenly dao would descend and through it, one's consciousness could enter the dao repository.
But the gods also had a high requirement for the people who would inherit their legacies. So they set up a condition. Only those people of cultivation base lower than the immortal step or breaking through to the immortal step could enter the dao repository. At the same time, one needed immortal sense in order to enter the dao repository.
The immortal sense was a special sense that only people of the immortal stage could have. The perception that one gains when one starts on their path of cultivation would strengthen itself over time and would become immortal sense when one reaches the immortal step. The greatest difference between perception and immortal sense was that while perception was formless and intangible, immortal sense had a tangible existence. It could be used to oppress or even kill enemies.
Almost all of the people who entered the immortal step gained the immortal sense after becoming an immortal. Since they did not have the immortal sense during their breakthrough they would not be able to enter the dao repository.
But every now and then a few people would be able to give birth to immortal sense while still in the third realm of the dao step. These people were terrifying talents. Maybe even millions of years would pass by before such a person would be born. For example among all the titled gods other than the God of Battle, all other gods managed to generate immortal sense before reaching the immortal step. But most of the gods did not. The people who generated immortal sense before the immortal stage could enter the dao repository during their breakthrough to the immortal step.
There were some people who could even generate immortal sense in the second realm of the dao step. These people could enter the dao repository twice. But on every entry, they could only choose one legacy. But this was impossibly difficult. Only two people had managed this feat so far. They were Long Tian himself and the God of Death.
Long Tian currently had god sense. God sense is the evolved form of the immortal sense. During his breakthroughs, he would be able to use it to enter the dao repository and gain a legacy. Not only that, he would be able to enter the repository ten times in total.
He did not need any legacy to help him cultivate. It was legacies that contained auxiliary skills that he needed. Also in the dao repository, the stronger legacies, including all the legacies of the titled gods were towards the back. And the deeper you go, the more powerful the pressure exerted by the dao repository would become. You had to use your immortal sense to power through it. Even though what Long Tian had was god sense, without any cultivation to power it, he would be unable to withstand even the mildest pressure. Thus during his first entry, he could only choose from one of the legacies in the entrance area. And those were the weakest kind. His own legacy was towards the very end of the god legacy region.
Suddenly Long Tian recalled someone who had left their legacy in the entrance area. He had arrived late and just created his legacy without thinking about it too much and had left it in the front. And he knew a few skills that would be extremely useful for survival in this world, where he had to grow up without his father's protection.
Then Long Tian closed his eyes and waited for the Soul Healing pill. Time passed by and quickly two days had gone by. Long Tian was still in meditation familiarizing himself with his new body. Suddenly his soul felt a pure and gentle power flowing into him. Even though he had never taken a dao class Soul Healing pill before, he had taken an Immortal class Soul Healing pill before. Thus he was able to quickly recognize it.
As he felt the power of the Soul Healing pill enter him, he quickly reconnected his soul to his body. He could see that no one was checking him. He sighed in relief and quickly gathered the medicinal power of the pill pooling around him. As his soul was not hurt, the medicinal power had nothing to do. He knew that after a while the medical power would simply waste away. So he had to act quickly.
The process of cultivation was to cultivate the dao. But humans are not connected with the dao. The first two steps of cultivation exist to make one's body, soul or qi more suitable to comprehend the dao. During the third and fourth steps, one would comprehend the dao and get close to it. And finally, during the god step, one would create their own dao, and be free of the bindings of the heavenly dao.
In the first two steps of the soul cultivation system, one needs to strengthen one's soul. And the stronger the soul becomes, the more and more rings would show up around the soul.
After looking at the pool of power he quickly started absorbing it. The amount of power contained in a Dao class pill was huge. But this was not a cultivation pill and only a healing pill. If this was a cultivation pill, using his foundation, he could easily reach the peak of the second step in soul cultivation. Of course, that would only make his soul cultivation unstable. Also if this was a cultivation pill, the energy would be far more violent and would most likely destroy his soul. As it is, he could most likely only reach the three ring realm, the peak of the first stage in the qi step in soul cultivation.
He started on the cultivation formula he practiced before in his previous life: The Infinitude Heavenly Thought. The cultivation process of the Infinitude Heavenly Thought was to create tendrils of soul that could exist independently. Each of these tendrils was a piece of soul and a piece of consciousness. This allowed one to split their thought and focus on more tasks at any given point in time. This was useful in battle, where one could fight ambidextrously and even focus their attention on other enemies. One could also merge the tendrils into one to increase their focus and their thinking speed if they desired.
The drawback of this cultivation method was that the tendrils of thought are intangible and has no power in the first and second step. In the first two steps, the tendrils were weak and only useful to more things around in combat. A person at the peak of the first step would be able to defeat a twelve ring realm soul cultivator training in the Infinitude Heavenly Thought. Even though Long Tian knew a few other soul cultivation techniques which were also top level cultivation techniques, he could not give up on the Infinitude Heavenly Thought. This was because this technique was created by his mother.
Not only that, but the Infinitude Heavenly Thought also became more and more terrifying as one went higher in their cultivation. Once one stepped into the dao step the Infinitude Heavenly Thought gains a huge boost in strength and allows one to control their powers much more finely. In the Immortal stage, each of those tendrils would be tangible and then it would be as if you are facing an endless army of soul cultivators. In the god stage, it would only bring despair. It was so much so that even though Log Tian was a half-step titled god even before the final battle, and one who pursued the strongest of daos, he was considered weaker than his mother who was only a peak soul god at the time.
In the first two steps, the number of tendrils represented the number of rings one had in the soul system. But as the cultivation became higher, the number of tendrils, as well as the strength of each tendril, goes up explosively. This also increased the difficulty of cultivation. It could easily be seen as even though his father had reached the mid titled god realm in all three cultivation systems previously, his mother was still stuck at the peak soul god stage.
As the strongest god, his mother was at the forefront during the battle. By the time Long Tian had reached the scene of battle, he could no longer sense his parents. He was certain that the two of them had already died.
He quickly pushed these thoughts to the back of his head and started to absorb the power left here. As time quickly passed, the pool of power quickly thinned. Nearly an hour had passed. A vague shadow could be seen appearing behind Long Tian's soul. This shadow looked like a snake made of smoke. Then suddenly the smoke seemed to come alive and coagulated into a single thread like existence. The first tendril had formed.
The moment it happened Long Tian felt an ancient and overwhelming power descending on him. Along with this power, a white ring suddenly appeared around him. Along with the appearance of his ring, he could feel a small mark slowly appearing on his soul. This was the karmic severing of the heavenly dao. In his past life, Long Tian was unable to sense this when it happened. But now thanks to the god sense, he could.
As the mark appeared, Long Tian used his god sense to trace the power to its origin. He could feel the vast and endless heavenly dao behind it. Then he converted his god sense into immortal sense and touched upon the heavenly dao once again. Suddenly he felt something deep within calling to him. He allowed himself to be pulled along by this power.
Long Tian felt his surroundings blur. When he opened his eyes he found himself at the base of a long flight of stairs. Most of the steps in the stairs contained a statue.
He smiled. He was at the Dao Repository.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone